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Councillors reject pay rise
Councillors and the mayor rejected a pay rise under proposals which would have seen the annual wage bill across the council rise to £1.3 million.
Plans put forward by the Independent Remuneration Panel suggested a four per cent pay rise for councillors from from £11,000 to £12,000. Cabinet members would have also seen their wages increase from £20,000 to £24,000 on December 1, while the mayor’s salary would have gone up to £72,000, an increase of £5,600.
But Labour, Conservative, Green and Lib Dem all rejected the wage rises which one councillor called “unjustifiable” at a time when the mayor is attempting to make £92 million of cuts.
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Helen Godwin, Labour councillor for Southmead, said: “The idea of supporting an increase in members’ allowances when we are going to have to cut vital funding to essential services in the coming months is unjustifiable.”
She added: “We have all chosen to put ourselves forward to serve the city, and whilst allowances are essential, now is absolutely not the time for individual’s to take more from the public purse.”
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